Sam+Gray


 * SAM GRAY**

Monty Python Sketch Qualities.

Why is voice important? What were the excersizes? Emotion Memory. P41. How does it work in acting? Objectives/Obstacles


 * Act 3 Scene 3**
 * Character: Brian**
 * Line:** Talking to yourself, spinning around and around, you're getting weird, Lewis.
 * Objective:** To talk with Lewis as a friend.
 * Action:** Standing with his arm around Bev.
 * Line:** It's none of your business
 * Objective:** To defend his actions**.** Surprised at Lewis' anger, he feels like he is being rebuked for something which he sees as great and special.
 * Action:** Pushes away Lewis.
 * Line:** Well, from what I've heard you're the only one who doesn't.
 * Objective:** To insult and get his own back against Lewis. He feels like he has been removed from his high status by Lewis' reactions.
 * Action:** Pushes past Bev and points at Lewis
 * Line:** I'm going to belt the shit out of you.
 * Objective:** To regain his honour in front of his girlfriend. Bev becomes the obstruction as she pushes Brian away from Lewis.
 * Action:** Storms toward Lewis in a threatening manner
 * Line:** If she wasn't your sister, I'd fuckin' flatten you. I'll remember that punch. Keep it up here. I've got a memory like an elephant. Like me dad.
 * Objective:** He is balancing trying to maintain his status between himself and Lewis, and to placate Bev, so that she will not deny him sex in the future.
 * Action:** Stops attempting to attack Lewis, pushes past him and spits at his feet.

Character Development. Brian: Having had his father put in jail for the last two years, like Lewis, he has lost a father figure. Unlike Lewis, his father left recently and gave him a strong male role model which he could follow. In an attempt to "be a man" he is obsessed with losing his virginity. When he has sex with Bev, his pride and feeling of fulfillment are crushed by Lewis' anger and his father's suicide. Brian has little respect for all of the people in this scene. He views Dulcie and Bev as mere sexual objects to be used, and if they reject him, he shows no remorse in hurting them. The only reason he respects Bev's request to leave Lewis alone is that he is afraid that if he goes against her, she will refuse to have sex with him. The reason Brian doesn't respect Lewis is that Lewis is almost as feminine as the two girls, having lost his male role model at an early age. Lewis is also Brian's oldest friend and is easily dominated by him. Superobjective: In the majority of this scene Brian has completed his previous superobjective, which is to become a man in his father's eyes. His super objective now is to gloat over his conquest. Lewis is the major obstacle, confronting him and assaulting him. His immediate objective becomes to retaliate, but Bev is now the obstacle, demanding that he leave her brother alone.

Character Profile: Dr. Angus Gray Around midday 4th November 2012 Summer Hill McDonalds. In the McDonalds there will probably be loud and noisy children, something he cannot stand, despite having four of his own. McDonalds is a rare treat, usually only reserved for long car trips. Just returned from Switzerland at Orthopaedic conference. Having been fed only fine Swiss food, he craves something closer to home. eg Macca's. Having finished his meal he will pull out the files he recieved at the Swiss conference and go over them, ignoring the majority of his surroundings. He has left his car at the Webster's, because he does not like McDonalds carparks (the drivers there are usually idiots) and is walking to and from McDonalds. Dr. Gray usually ignores the people around him in an unfamiliar place, using the time to catch up with the news or work. He is usually serious, and hangs out with like minded people, but has a couple of rowdy friends from his time at Sydney Grammar school.


 * ** NAME: Dr. Angus Gray.**
 * ** ADDRESS: 38 Campbell St Abbotsford in the Western Suburbs.**
 * ** DATE OF BIRTH : June 1963**
 * ** RELATIONSHIPS : Loves his wife and four kids, but prefers the dog to any of them.**
 * ** GOOD HABITS : Will support a good cause eg; work for a hospital in the Gaza Strip for**
 * ** BAD HABITS : Takes photos far too often on holiday**


 * LIKES : Bike-riding, Die Hard, Star Wars, quiet, fishing. Best Day: Fishing on the tinny without a sound.
 * ** DISLIKES : Complaining patients, loud noise. Worst Day: Stuck at work for 12 hours**


 * He would take a bed, food, a bike, fishing rod, and a tinny.



For the airport scene in preparation for the McDonalds scene, I will be wearing jeans, a button up white shirt and a jacket, giving a look of smart casual, which is what Dr. Gray usually wears at the airport. I am carrying an folder full of files and x-rays for the Swiss conference, which concerns the new development of a titanium-carbon brace for sufferers of scoliosis and similar diseases. I will attempt to avoid conversation with the rest of the crowd in the airport.

Evaluation of the McDonald's scene: The stride was intentionally long and brisk, as the amount of time my character had to spend at McDonalds was limited. I attempted to avoid conversation, and tried to get rid of Mr Duhigg as quickly as possible without appearing rude. I also attempted to avoid Joss as he struck my character as a nutter leaving the school as he just started talking far too chummily with everyone. I had a moment of indecision of whether to pick up a newspaper or not, as that would require my character to walk through the crowd of people. I think I kept up my character pretty well for the time, and used the mannerisms fairly consistantly.

Given circumstances of Summer of the Aliens. Universal: Lewis believes that aliens exist and have kidnapped people. Planetary: 1962. America and Russia are at the brink of war, and Australians are becoming more and more paranoid about communist invasion. This has spread to the children, although they do not take it seriously and talk about it in a matter-of-fact way. Local: The neighborhood is apparently a rough one, with the postman's bike being stolen, and Lewis' dad running away from home. Characters: Lewis lives with his mother in a street with no male children, and has no interest in fighting or sex. On the other hand, Dulcie is more of a tomboy, who wants to wrestle with the unwilling Lewis, and is then curious about what he felt during the brief fight. Mr Pisano, the postman, is cynical and rude, who is sick of living in such a bad neighborhood.

Lewis is not really interested in Dulcie in scene one, more interested in when the shooters leave, so he can retrieve the shells, for the money to go the pictures. He is also flitting from subject to subject, from the adult's fear of Communist invasion, to his belief in aliens and their antics. His father has left the family, leaving him with his mother, sister, and grandmother.

Circumstances: Sunburnt at pool with Dulcie. Has a fiercely proud grandmother, and has rude friends other than Dulcie. Objectives: To gather enough brass shells to afford to go to the pictures. Dulcie's requests to peel her sunburn are impeding his goal.

Act Two, Scene Six: Brian: What are you doing, wog? (Surprised that his goal of meeting Lewis has been complicated by Beatrice) Why you poking the hole with a stick? A snake angry as hell will come out and bite you!

Why is Voice important? The voice is one of the actor's greatest tools.With it, they can define a character as easily as costume and posture could.